Bill Amendment: TX HB3474 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: Relating to the operation and administration of and practices and procedures regarding proceedings in the judicial branch of state government, including the service of process and delivery of documents related to the proceedings, the administration of oaths, and the management of the Texas Indigent Defense Commission, and the composition of certain juvenile boards; establishing a civil penalty; increasing certain court costs; authorizing fees.

Status: 2023-06-13 - See remarks for effective date [HB3474 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3474-Senate_Amendment_S_2_F3-West.html

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Amend CSHB 3474 (senate committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to ARTICLE 1 of the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of ARTICLE 1 of the bill accordingly:

SECTION 1.___. (a) Effective September 1, 2023, Section 24.610, Government Code, is repealed and the 302nd Judicial District is abolished.

(b)  The local administrative district judge shall transfer each case that is pending in the 302nd District Court on September 1, 2023, to a district court in the county with jurisdiction over the case.

(c)  When a case is transferred from 302nd District Court to another district court as provided by Subsection (b) of this section, all processes, writs, bonds, recognizances, or other obligations issued from the transferring court are returnable to the court to which the case is transferred as if originally issued by that court. The obligees in all bonds and recognizances taken in and for a court from which a case is transferred, and all witnesses summoned to appear in a court from which a case is transferred, are required to appear before the court to which a case is transferred as if originally required to appear before the court to which the transfer is made.